Russian Folk Religious Imagination
A collaboration between scholars at UK and in Russia to produce a set of digital resources on Russian folk religious belief focusing on legends, songs and rituals. The finished project will include texts of religious legends, songs and ritual descriptions in both original Russian and in new English translations, scholarly commentary and critical textual analysis of the texts as well as images of folk iconography, pictures and video of rituals and recordings of legends and songs. We will provide access to material difficult to obtain in the west and in Russia and will draw on a variety of sources for a coherent analysis of folk belief. Directed by Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby with technical assistance from Mark Lauersdorf and Dot Porter. Funded through an NEH Digital Humanities Initiative Start-Up Grant.